If God's will is that you are sick, you are sick right? If God's will is that you are suffering, you are suffering.
Is it God's will then, if you make a decision and are forced to suffer the consequences? Something profound has crept into my thoughts (through the help of Mr. Eldredge)
What if we understand that it IS possible to live outside of God's will? That God's will is his perfect path, but we're able (and often do) choose another way.
It is possible to live outside of God's will. To choose another way. If there was no way, why pray? Why evangelize? Why ponder the deepest meanings of scripture or recycle?
Because it's possible that we haven't made God happy. Think about the Lord's Prayer -- A scripture memorized by Catholics and Christians alike.
"Thy Kingdom comeWhy would Jesus tell his disciples to pray this way if it weren't true? Nowhere else in the bible does God have us repeat some mantra, in fact there are myriad verses describing that we're saved by faith, rather than works (Eph. 2:8 for example.)
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven."
So why, if God's will was not up for our choosing, would Jesus bother to pray for it? God doesn't seem interested in rote memorization.
But, what if God in his perfection created us to have stories that ended in us, and stories that ended in God and the ability to choose between them?
In one is found the peace of God's action, in the other, no promise of security. But each were written by the same Hand.
It almost seems like parallel events are happening in heaven, God's perfect will being acted out, and Jesus is begging God that what happens here on earth be a reflection of the goings-on upstairs.
Where people are choosing God's will.
So when Jesus prays this, he's asking that the perfect will of heaven would be made to happen here. On earth.
God's will is present in our lives, whether or not we are living it is our fight.
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